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Boyhood Island: My Struggle Book 3
Karl Ove Knausgaard
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Description for Boyhood Island: My Struggle Book 3
Paperback. Childhood is exhilarating and terrifying. For the young Karl Ove, new houses, classes and friends are met with manic excitement and creeping dread. Adults occupy godlike positions of power, benevolent in the case of his doting mother, tyrannical in the case of his cruel father. In this book, the author shares about his childhood. Translator(s): Bartlett, Don. Series: Knausgaard. Num Pages: 496 pages, maps (colour). BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 129 x 198 x 26. Weight in Grams: 372.
An irresistible story of childhood adventure from the international phenomenon, Karl Ove Knausgaard.
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Childhood is exhilarating and terrifying. For the young Karl Ove, new houses, classes and friends are met with manic excitement and creeping dread. Adults occupy godlike positions of power, benevolent in the case of his doting mother, tyrannical in the case of his cruel father.
In the now infamously direct style of the My Struggle cycle, Knausgaard describes a time in which victories and defeats are felt keenly ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Series
Knausgaard
Condition
New
Number of Pages
496
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780099581499
SKU
V9780099581499
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-98
About Karl Ove Knausgaard
Karl Ove Knausgaard's My Struggle cycle has been heralded as a masterpiece all over the world. From A Death in the Family to The End, the novels move through childhood into adulthood and, together, form an enthralling portrait of human life. Knausgaard has been awarded the Norwegian Critics Prize for Literature, the Brage Prize and the Jerusalem Prize. His work, ... Read more
Reviews for Boyhood Island: My Struggle Book 3
Via his visceral, immersive art, Knausgaard makes the heart visible
Boyd Tonkin
Independent
Knausgaard finds the sublime in the everyday... Boyhood Island reverberates with the joys and anxieties of early youth, and Knausgaard brilliantly recreates their exaggerated feel
Thomas Meaney
Times Literary Supplement
Compelling and addictive... One of the most grown-up works of fiction ... Read more
Boyd Tonkin
Independent
Knausgaard finds the sublime in the everyday... Boyhood Island reverberates with the joys and anxieties of early youth, and Knausgaard brilliantly recreates their exaggerated feel
Thomas Meaney
Times Literary Supplement
Compelling and addictive... One of the most grown-up works of fiction ... Read more